1394 Sheet – Supreme Court Georgia Appeals of Leo Frank, 1913, 1914

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with defendant, that said Ruth Robinson was shocked by the broad insinuation and affirmative statement of the Solicitor General, and she told him that all such statements and allusions were lies and that she had never heard of any such thing ever occurring in the factory or elsewhere, in which defendant and any girl employe of the factory were parties to, and that she had never heard such insulting language by direct speech and innuendo by any of the commonest laborers in and about the National Pencil Factory as was used to her by the Solicitor General when in his private room that he, being the Solicitor General, and she, being in his office, believed at the time that he possessed some sort of right to accuse and insult her and under this belief that she was obliged to take his insults and listen to his scandalous statements by direct speech and innuendo without openly resenting them further than to deny every single one of them, that the said Ruth Robertson wishes to refer to her evidence as given on the stand at the trial of defendant, as to her answers to questions of the Solicitor wherein she was made to say that she had heard defendant call Mary Phagan by her first name, "Mary"; that upon reflection, she wishes to explain that her answer as she repeated was due entirely to her nervousness because of the badgering that she had been subjected to by the Solicitor, and that as a matter of fact she could not recall one single incident wherein she had ever heard defendant address Mary Phagan by any name, that she could not recall now under calm deliberation that she had ever heard defendant address Mary Phagan by any name as she had never seen him speak with her at any time or place except when instructing her to perform her work better and more rapidly while at her work in the factory; that the said Ruth Robinson, back to her first call on the Solicitor, and where he had questioned and talked to her about an hour and a half, at the conclusion of which she was directed to another large room, adjoining where the Solicitor had talked to her, in which there were 18 or 15 other girls and women, all witnesses in the Frank case, and called by the Solicitor according to her understanding, that among these girls she remembers one Carrie Smith, Myrtle Cato, Maggie Griffin and Dewey Howell, that she remained there